hyphenaten.
A hyphenated person.
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the world > people > nations > national of a country > [noun] > persons of two nations
international1851
hyphenate1916
1916 Yorks. Post 4 Mar. 6/7 The Hyphenates throughout the country are greatly excited.
1920 Glasgow Herald 27 Nov. 6 This political hyphenate or composite is desirous of running a Home Rule for Scotland campaign.
1922 Contemp. Rev. Dec. 693 The ‘hyphenates’—Irish and Germans, Poles and Russians and Italians—..joined in the condemnation of Wilsonism.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
hyphenatev.
/ˈhʌɪfəneɪt/, U.S. /ˈhaɪfəˌneɪt/ transitive. = hyphen v.
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society > communication > writing > written character > punctuation > punctuate [verb (transitive)] > hyphen
hyphen1814
hyphenize1869
hyphenate1892
1892 Guardian 14 Sept. 1358 We ought to hyphenate ‘noble-simple’ [Shakes. Cymb. iii. iv. 133]. Cloten is noble by rank, but ‘simple’, that is, a clown, by nature and habit.
Derivatives
hypheˈnation n. the action of joining by a hyphen.
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society > communication > writing > written character > punctuation > [noun] > hyphen > use of
hyphenization1851
hyphenation1886
hyphening1929
1886 19th Cent. May 700 Arbitrary italicising, meaningless bracketing, and senseless hyphenation.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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